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The evaluation of machine-generated image captions poses an interesting yet persistent challenge. Effective evaluation measures must consider numerous dimensions of similarity, including semantic relevance, visual structure, object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-26 David Chan , Suzanne Petryk , Joseph E. Gonzalez , Trevor Darrell , John Canny

Multimodal Large Language Models have advanced visual reasoning, yet a purely textual chain of thought remains a bottleneck for questions that require fine-grained focus or view transformations. The ''think with images'' paradigm narrows…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Beichen Zhang , Yuhong Liu , Jinsong Li , Yuhang Zang , Jiaqi Wang , Dahua Lin

Diffusion-based text-to-image models have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in generating realistic images, but they raise societal and ethical concerns, such as the creation of unsafe content. While concept editing is proposed to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Ruipeng Wang , Junfeng Fang , Jiaqi Li , Hao Chen , Jie Shi , Kun Wang , Xiang Wang

In this paper, we design and train a Generative Image-to-text Transformer, GIT, to unify vision-language tasks such as image/video captioning and question answering. While generative models provide a consistent network architecture between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-19 Jianfeng Wang , Zhengyuan Yang , Xiaowei Hu , Linjie Li , Kevin Lin , Zhe Gan , Zicheng Liu , Ce Liu , Lijuan Wang

Contextualized Image Captioning (CIC) evolves traditional image captioning into a more complex domain, necessitating the ability for multimodal reasoning. It aims to generate image captions given specific contextual information. This paper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Shunqi Mao , Chaoyi Zhang , Hang Su , Hwanjun Song , Igor Shalyminov , Weidong Cai

Image captioning is a multimodal problem that has drawn extensive attention in both the natural language processing and computer vision community. In this paper, we present a novel image captioning architecture to better explore semantics…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-23 Zhan Shi , Xu Zhou , Xipeng Qiu , Xiaodan Zhu

Current sampling mechanisms for conditional diffusion models rely mainly on Classifier Free Guidance (CFG) to generate high-quality images. However, CFG requires several denoising passes in each time step, e.g., up to three passes in image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Mehdi Noroozi , Alberto Gil Ramos , Luca Morreale , Ruchika Chavhan , Malcolm Chadwick , Abhinav Mehrotra , Sourav Bhattacharya

Change captioning aims to describe the difference between a pair of similar images. Its key challenge is how to learn a stable difference representation under pseudo changes caused by viewpoint change. In this paper, we address this by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-29 Yunbin Tu , Liang Li , Li Su , Zheng-Jun Zha , Chenggang Yan , Qingming Huang

The objective of image captioning models is to bridge the gap between the visual and linguistic modalities by generating natural language descriptions that accurately reflect the content of input images. In recent years, researchers have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Sara Sarto , Marcella Cornia , Lorenzo Baraldi , Alessandro Nicolosi , Rita Cucchiara

Controllable Image Captioning (CIC) aims at generating natural language descriptions for an image, conditioned on information provided by end users, e.g., regions, entities or events of interest. However, available image-language datasets…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Kalliopi Basioti , Mohamed A. Abdelsalam , Federico Fancellu , Vladimir Pavlovic , Afsaneh Fazly

Change captioning generates descriptions that explicitly describe the differences between two visually similar images. Existing methods operate on static image pairs, thus ignoring the rich temporal dynamics of the change procedure, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Jiayang Sun , Zixin Guo , Min Cao , Guibo Zhu , Jorma Laaksonen

Artificial neural networks typically struggle in generalizing to out-of-context examples. One reason for this limitation is caused by having datasets that incorporate only partial information regarding the potential correlational structure…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-20 Valentin Barriere , Felipe del Rio , Andres Carvallo De Ferari , Carlos Aspillaga , Eugenio Herrera-Berg , Cristian Buc Calderon

Benefiting from advances in machine vision and natural language processing techniques, current image captioning systems are able to generate detailed visual descriptions. For the most part, these descriptions represent an objective…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-16 Omid Mohamad Nezami , Mark Dras , Stephen Wan , Cecile Paris

In this paper, we propose QACE, a new metric based on Question Answering for Caption Evaluation. QACE generates questions on the evaluated caption and checks its content by asking the questions on either the reference caption or the source…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Hwanhee Lee , Thomas Scialom , Seunghyun Yoon , Franck Dernoncourt , Kyomin Jung

Image captioning is an interdisciplinary research problem that stands between computer vision and natural language processing. The task is to generate a textual description of the content of an image. The typical model used for image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-16 Loris Bazzani , Tobias Domhan , Felix Hieber

Image captioning for Early Childhood Education (ECE) is essential for automated activity understanding and educational assessment. However, existing methods face two key challenges. First, the lack of large-scale, domain-specific datasets…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Sixing Li , Zhibin Gu , Ziqi Zhang , Weiguo Pan , Bing Li , Ying Wang , Hongzhe Liu

The image captioning task is about to generate suitable descriptions from images. For this task there can be several challenges such as accuracy, fluency and diversity. However there are few metrics that can cover all these properties while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Chao Zeng , Sam Kwong

In modern machine learning, the trend of harnessing self-supervised learning to derive high-quality representations without label dependency has garnered significant attention. However, the absence of label information, coupled with the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Yan Cui , Shuhong Liu , Liuzhuozheng Li , Zhiyuan Yuan

News image captioning aims to produce journalistically informative descriptions by combining visual content with contextual cues from associated articles. Despite recent advances, existing methods struggle with three key challenges: (1)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Xiaoxing You , Qiang Huang , Lingyu Li , Chi Zhang , Xiaopeng Liu , Min Zhang , Jun Yu

Recent progress in controllable image generation and editing is largely driven by diffusion-based methods. Although diffusion models perform exceptionally well in specific tasks with tailored designs, establishing a unified model is still…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-09 Jiteng Mu , Nuno Vasconcelos , Xiaolong Wang